“Cracking down” on crime
Sir, — In its newspaper advertisement entitled “War,” the Labour Party has
pledged itself to “make the streets safe ... by cracking down on crime." Exactly what form is this “crackdown going to take? What, in the opinion of the Labour Party, are the causes of crime in this country? Crime, surely, does not occur without a cause, and I wonder what solutions the party has for the basic causes of crime? 1 seem to remember that the Labour Party was going to “crack down" on crime after it won the 1972 election. I also remember similar promises being made by the New Zealand National Party before the 1975 election. Neither has done anything to solve the problem. Are these promises nothing but cheap and meaningless electioneering slogans? Are the politicians pandering to prejudice and putting forward simplistic solutions to complex problems about which, after the election, they do not intend doing anything? — Yours, etc., BRIAN WILSON. April 14, 1978.
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